Kazi Habibul Awal (born 21 January 1956) is a retired senior secretary and the former chief election commissioner of Bangladesh.
[4][2] His father, Kazi Abdul Awal, was the deputy inspector general of prison, he was also the plaintiff in the Jail Killing case.
[6] Habibul Awal started his career as an assistant judge (munsif) in 1981 after passing the Bangladesh Civil Service exam.
[2][7] On 5 July 2007, Judge Aftab Uddin Ahmed filed a petition against the appointment of Habibul Awal as acting secretary.
He also apologized for the incident when a parliamentary committee summoned him for illegally retiring two judges while he was the additional secretary of the Legal and Drafting Branch of the Law Ministry.